Tea Party is an anti-populist elite tool. And it has progressives fooled

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. "the apostasies of the Bush Administration......"

What did they ever get upset at the Bush (mis-)Administration about? For all of their complaints about Wall Street bailouts, TARP, etc., they have been mighty resistant to any sort of meaningful reforms and/or increasing regulations on Wall Street following the 2008 meltdown. Many of them blame left-wing groups and government-run entities for the meltdown. Most of them- or at least a lot of them- were its most ardent defenders about just about everything- torture, Iraq, illegal (at the time) wiretapping, tax cuts, deregulation. You name it. None of them AFAIK were upset about the massive tax cuts for the wealthy or the massive deregulation or the vast sums of money or lives spent in Iraq over phantom WMDs not to mention the money and equipment that was stolen and/or went missing (or both). The only people raising objections to the Bush (mis-)Administration were progressives and Democrats though we were mostly shut out in the cold from any serious discussions of what it was up to. The Tea Party movement is/was IMHO a right-wing reaction against President Obama's election disguised as a populist movement supported and funded by rich right-wingers to cripple and obstruct his (and the Democrats') agenda and boost the Republican Party after it was left flagging after the 2008 election and the failures of the Bush (mis-)Administration.